The Whispering Star
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Whispering Star |
| Original title | ひ そ ひ そ 星 Hiso Hiso Boshi |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sion Sono |
| script | Sion Sono |
| production | Sion Sono |
| camera | Hideo Yamamoto |
| cut | Jun'ichi Itō |
| occupation | |
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The Whispering Star ( Japanese ひ そ ひ そ 星 , Hiso Hiso Boshi ) is a Japanese science fiction film directed by and screenwriter Sion Sono from 2015. The film had its world premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival , where it won the NETPAC Award was awarded.
action
In an undefined, distant future, humans have become an endangered species. Humans live far apart on different planets , in different galaxies . Androids , human robots with artificial intelligence, make up the majority of the population . Also, Android ID 722 Yoko Suzuki is one of these. As a parcel carrier, she travels from star to star to deliver parcels with apparently meaningless content to people. These are small objects such as photographs, cigarette butts, hats or even just individual pens. Yoko spends day after day in her spaceship , which looks like an old Japanese family house, and does her job without questioning her. She dutifully wanders through the desolate, deserted landscapes of various planets without knowing what is in the packages. But one day she too becomes curious.
background
The film deals indirectly with the nuclear disaster in Fukushima 2011. The locations Namie , Minamisoma and Tomioka served as locations , all three in Fukushima prefecture . Until 2013, the cities were wholly or partially in the 20 km exclusion zone of Fukushima. Residents of the places have cameo appearances in the film, they are thanked separately in the opening credits. The catastrophe itself is negotiated through images of deserted, deserted landscapes and the distance between the still living people who are scattered on different planets. The setting in the future also gives the film the character of a dystopia .
Unlike many of Sono's early films, The Whispering Star is slow to narrate. As influences from the genre of philosophical science fiction film may include Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker or Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey be identified.
The Whispering Star is the first film from Sion Sono's own production company Sion Production and was made in its most productive year to date: he released six films in 2015. Sono's wife Megumi Kagurazaka plays the leading role as android Yoko.
criticism
Variety : "... a finger exercise in minimalist science fiction by one of the most prominent maximalists in world cinema."
Cinema Scope : “The spirit of nostalgia and lamentation is reflected in the high-quality production design. (...) The images of Fukushima and its wandering souls are undoubtedly haunting. "
Awards
NETPAC Award of the Toronto International Film Festival 2015. The jury's reasoning was as follows:
"For its poetic, moving and brave attempt to express a grief that's inexpressible, combining all too real elements with lo-fi sci-fi, the NETPAC jury awards the prize to The Whispering Star."
"For his poetic, moving and courageous attempt to express a grief that is inexpressible, and for the combination of all too real elements with lo-fi science fiction , the NETPAC jury awards the prize to The Whispering Star."
Web links
- The Whispering Star in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
- Jörg Buttgereit : Review of The Whispering Star , epd Film , May 17, 2016
- Bert Rebhandl: Waiting for an interstellar registered mail , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 25, 2016
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Approval for The Whispering Star . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 158859 / K).
- ↑ Summary of contents and information on archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Contents and staff on the Nikkatsu homepage
- ↑ Toronto International Film Festival: Room Wins the Grolsch People's Choice Award! See All the TIFF15 Winners ... In: TIFF.net. Retrieved April 14, 2016 .
- ↑ http://www.sionproduction.com/
- ↑ Scott Tobias: Film Review: 'The Whispering Star'. In: Variety. Retrieved April 14, 2016 (American English).
- ↑ TIFF 2015 | The Whispering Star (Sion Sono, Japan) —Contemporary World Cinema - Cinema Scope. In: Cinema Scope. Retrieved April 14, 2016 (American English).
- ↑ Toronto International Film Festival: TIFF.net | Room Wins the Grolsch People's Choice Award! See All the TIFF15 Winners ... In: TIFF. Retrieved April 14, 2016 (American English).
